Barcelona’s interest in Antoine Griezmann has cooled amid opposition against his signing at board level and in the dressing room at Camp Nou, with Lionel Messi and others favouring the return of Neymar this summer.
Messi was asked about the possibility of Barca buying the Atletico Madrid attacker in May last year and said: “I don’t know if there is anything in it or not, but we are delighted if the best players come and Griezmann is one of those.”
But a year on, the Argentine gave a very different answer. Speaking in the pre-match press conference ahead of the Copa del Rey final defeat against Valencia on May 25th, he was asked again about the French forward and said: “I won’t speak about Griezmann.”
That was after the 28-year-old had announced his decision to leave Atletico, paving the way for a summer switch to Barca
Lionel Messi has requested the signing of Neymar to the president of Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu. The board are studying ways to sign the Brazilian forward. [el mundo] pic.twitter.com/aCD2GPz4jo
— barcacentre (@barcacentre) June 18, 2019
